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Many IT professionals believe that Oracle's recent moves in the open source software (OSS) market -- including its purchase of open source stalwart Sleepycat Software Inc. -- were undertaken in an effort

Mark Spencer was just 21 when he first created Asterisk, an open source PBX (private branch exchange) that runs on Linux. He eventually realized that Asterisk could serve as a replacement for telephone

IT managers who want to secure their Linux environments and keep things running smoothly have a very powerful tool at their disposal: Security Enhanced Linux, or SELinux, an implementation of mandatory